The Cultural Obsession of Pet Idolatry

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Last week, Dale released a tweet that said, “The absurd number of dog parks being built across America is telling. We have rejected children to such a degree that many cities are building more recreation sites for pets than playgrounds for kids. Namely, our culture is so selfish that it’s now shaping civics. All previous generations would see spending $225,000 of taxpayer money on pet pleasure as foolish and idiotic. But cities always follow culture, and culture always follows what they worship. When Christ isn’t seen as Lord, pet praise and childlessness are two sad consequences.” G.K. Chesterton once spoke to this relationship between pet praise and the rejection of children. He said, “Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.” In this episode of Real Christianity, Dale explores what has happened in our culture to allow this glorification of pets to occur.

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0:00.0	On this episode of Real Christianity,
0:01.2	we are talking about the cultural obsession of pet idolatry.
0:06.2	It's something that is plaguing America
0:07.8	and it's important, all that coming up right now.
0:10.2	Right now.
0:11.0	I'm going to go to Real Christianity.
0:21.3	My name is Dale Partridge.
0:22.8	We are going to have a great conversation about pets today.
0:26.5	But before we begin, I just wanted to let you know
0:28.4	that this is a audio and video ministry of relearn.org.
0:33.0	We are on a mission to bring the church back to the Bible
0:35.4	to increase biblical and theological literacy.
0:37.6	We want gospel fluency in men and women and children.
0:42.0	One of those resources that we've actually released
0:44.1	to help not necessarily gospel fluency,
0:46.8	even though we do talk about the gospel,
0:48.3	is my book, it's a children's book.
0:50.0	It's called Jesus and my gender.
0:51.9	And it's really a book on affirming God's design for children
0:56.7	or affirming your God-given gender.
0:59.0	We don't talk about all the alphabet soup stuff
1:02.2	that's going on in gender and sexual identities today.
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